Political Science · Political Theory
Who is known as the first modern feminist?
AMary Wollstonecraft ✓ Correct
BJ. S. Mill
CPlato
DKate Millett
Correct answer: (A) Mary Wollstonecraft — Mary Wollstonecraft is regarded as the first modern feminist, so the answer is Wollstonecraft.
Explanation
★Mary Wollstonecraft is regarded as the first modern feminist, so the answer is Wollstonecraft.
★She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.
★She argued that women appear inferior only because they are denied education.
★She demanded that women be treated as rational beings entitled to the same rights as men.
★J. S. Mill later supported women's rights in The Subjection of Women in 1869.
★Plato discussed guardian women in the Republic but did not found feminism.
★Kate Millett is a radical feminist of the much later second wave.
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